Jammu & Kashmir Police - CID

CID is the premier intelligence wing of J&K Police and has been traditionally occupying the important position by functioning as eyes and ears of the Government. The CID is headed by an officer of the rank of ADG or IG and presently one IGP is heading the Wing.  In the discharge of duties besides one IGP or DIG(as the case may be) and SSsP at Hqrs, he is assisted by two DIsGP  CID Kashmir/Jammu who are assisted by  SSsP Special Branch/ Counter Intelligence in their respective provinces.  While Special Branch is dealing with collection, collation and dissemination of intelligence relating to political and other counts to maintain the surveillance over the undesirable elements etc, the Counter Intelligence is basically an anti-militancy set-up dealing with the collection of intelligence to counter the threat of anti-national, subversion, espionage, smuggling of contrabands and trans-border activities. Apart from these functions, the CID also carries out verification for the purpose of service, passports, threat perception, VISA clearance, NRI, migration relief cases and other allied verifications. SSP CID SB Kashmir/Jammu are also designated as Foreigners registration Officers in their respective jurisdiction whileas SSP Leh for Ladakh under the overall supervision of CID Headquarters. In addition, one SP is looking after at CID Cell New Delhi which is responsible for maintaining liaison with Govt of India and collection of intelligence having bearing on law and order, security and terrorist activities.

The contact details of Criminal Investigation Department, Jammu & Kashmir Police are:

Address & Telephone Numbers
Applicable from November to April	Applicable from May to October
Sh. Dr. B. Srinavas, IPS IGP CID Jammu & Kashmir	Canal Road, Jammu Jammu & Kashmir India 0191-2546133 (O) 0191-2549770 (O)	Residency Road, GPO Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir India 0194-2452165 (O) 0194-2452723 (O)
Sh. Surinder Kumar Gupta, IPS DIG CID Jammu	Canal Road, Jammu (J&K) 0191-2544323 (O)
Sh. N.D. Wani, IPS DIG CID Kashmir	Residency Road, GPO Srinagar (J&K) 0194-2452034 (O)

FAMILIES OF SLAIN HR DEFENDERS PIN HOPE ON UN RAPPORTEUR

Srinagar, Jan 19: While the United Nations Rapporteur, Margaret Sekaggya is scheduled to visit Kashmir on Wednesday to assess the situation of human rights defenders, justice still eludes the families of several such defenders killed in different incidents in Kashmir in the past two decades, reports GK 18/1.

Pinning hope on the UN Rapporteur, the families of several defenders have shot off letters to Sekaggya to apprise her about their plight.

Fifteen years before, a prominent human rights lawyer Jaleel Andrabi disappeared and was later killed. Justice still eludes his family as the trial of the accused Major Avtar Singh is yet to start, despite repeated directions from a Court to arrest Singh, whose presence in California was confirmed by the United States National Central Bureau (USNCB) of Interpol in 2009.

Disappeared on March 8, 1996, Jaleel’s body was found 19 days after his disappearance. In April, 1997, the Special Investigation Team constituted by the state government to investigate the killing presented its initial findings to the High Court and claimed that one Major Avtar Singh from the 103rd Unit of the Territorial Army and other soldiers were responsible for the abduction and killing of Jaleel. However, the SIT was unable to arrest Singh as they could not trace him.

Talking to Greater Kashmir Jaleel's brother Arshad Andrabi said he had sent a letter to UN Rapporteur seeking justice from the international organization.

He blamed the state government for insincerity to proceed in the matter. “The abnormal delay coupled with inherent defects in the investigation suggests that the government is neither sincere nor interested to pursue the case. They must be waiting for the witnesses to die or be eliminated by the same invisible hands which have manipulated the killing and subsequent cover up of the case for 16 years," he said.

He also talked about a “larger conspiracy” on the part of officers of Army, Intelligence and Police who according to him had worked in tandem before the killing of his brother-Jaleel.

A letter shot by USNCB of Interpol has confirmed that Major Avtar Singh lives in California. However, the US-based agency has asked the Interpol New Delhi to furnish the record of proceedings translated and certified version of conviction record, charge-sheet, and other relevant documents.

In another incident on December 31, 1993, unidentified gunmen kidnapped Dean Faculty of Law Kashmir University Dr Abdul Ahad Wani and took him to a nearby area Sadrabal, Srinagar where he was shot dead. In similar incidents, noted human rights defender H N Wanchoo, advocate Ghulam Qadir Sehlani, Dr Abdul Ahad Guru,  Sheikh Ghulam Rasool Azad (Editor Kashmir Saffron Times), Mushtaq Ahmad Lone Editor, Wehdat-e-Milli), Dr Farooq Ahmad Ashai and Ms Asiya Jeelani were killed.

Reportedly, days after Jaleel’s killing, women human rights defender, Dr Hamida Nayeem went to Geneva to attend a Human Rights Conference. On her return to Valley, she was allegedly harassed and her passport seized by the state government for raising voice against the HR violations.

The Kashmir-based human rights organizations and civil society groups have exuded hope that the UN Special Rapporteur’s visit would help them highlight the crackdown on the human rights defenders.

In the backdrop of last year’s summer unrest in the Valley which left 112 civilians dead in police and paramilitary CRPF action, the UN Rapporteur is to assess the condition of human rights defenders. Officials said Margaret Sekaggya, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, is scheduled to meet top officials of the State including the Home Secretary, Director General of Police besides the civil society and human rights groups.